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Old 01-12-2023, 12:05 PM   #1
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Best way to "smarten" odd ellipsis pattern to U+2026?

I have a book that has ellipses in pattern of repeating no-break space (U+00a0) and a regular period:

i.e., as " . . . "

Smarten Punctuation in Calibre doesn't catch it -- what's the best way to turn it into a U+2026 (horizontal ellipsis) using Calibre?

Thanks for any suggestions!
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Old 01-12-2023, 12:23 PM   #2
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Some people argue that periods and partial size no-break spaces are superior.
But a global search for . . . replace with … in an ebook will work.
You might also want to replace ... (or more .) and regular spaced version also partial sized spaces as well as the no-break space.
I just type in “ ” ‘ ’ … — – ′ and ″ as only < and > need to be HTML entities in UTF8 ebooks. Similarly è é etc sometimes have HTML entities, but the direct characters work.
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Old 01-12-2023, 03:27 PM   #3
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I found something that works for me. I was able to Regex search in the Calibre for:

\u00A0[.]
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